
“Mr. [Robert] Fitzgerald sat quietly at his desk, his sharpened pencil poised at the top of my poem. He began to cross out, starting with my first line, and running deliberately – 5 – 10 – 12 – 15 – lines down, until he stopped. I held my breath. “The poem starts here,” he said.””
--Miriam Sagan UNBROKEN LINE: Writing in the Lineage of Poetry